Tomorrow – Monday – is the day some of us thought we would never see but many of us hoped for: Donald Trump’s inauguration for a second term as President of the United States.
As a candidate, the President-elect promised (I can stop typing this tomorrow!) and promised that he would hit the ground running from day one and begin realizing his vision. As we discussed, he will be armed with over 100 Executive Orders – I’m seeing reports on Sunday that the number may have increased by now up to 200– and he will be ready to sign some of them not too long after he takes his oath of office.
Batten down the hatches: Trump: I’m coming and I have 100 executive orders ready
But that’s not all he plans to do on his first day – he will reportedly issue a “list” of pardons to an unknown number of attendees at the January 6, 2021 J6 events.
BREAKING: President Trump will sign an extensive “list” of J6 pardons immediately after his swearing in tomorrow. The pardons have already been drawn up.
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) January 19, 2025
We’ll just have to wait and see how many pardons there are In the end he spends:
President-elect Donald Trump and his team have drawn up a list of pardons for people convicted for their roles in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol on the 1st dayshortly after Trump was sworn in as president, two sources familiar with the plans told CNN.
Trump has repeatedly said he plans to quickly pardon people convicted for their roles in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. During an interview with Time magazine in December, Trump said, “I’ll look at J6 right at the beginning, maybe the first nine minutes.”
The extent of the first pardons is still unclear; However, one of the sources described it as sufficient to be seen as a “fulfiller of his long-held promise.” About 1,270 people were convicted of crimes related to January 6, and the extensive majority of those defendants pleaded guilty. Only a few hundred are currently behind bars.
X owner and co-head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Elon Musk, wrote that some prisoners need to be released immediately – without bureaucracy, please:
And they should be released immediately after the pardons are signed! Longer delays in paperwork are not acceptable.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 19, 2025
There was much discussion about whether the future president would pardon violent participants. Many experts argue that he should be released all J6 prisonersbut at least two prominent GOP voices say those who do Police attacked shouldn’t get a free pass.
Several of Trump’s Republican allies have said they expect him to approach pardons on a case-by-case basis, but two key Republican lawmakers refused Sunday to rule out that Trump might issue pardons for some of the big-ticket cases 174 defendants charged with using a deadly or risky weapon against police officers.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said on “Meet the Press” Sunday that Trump and [Vice President-elect JD] Vance agrees: “Peaceful protesters should be pardoned, but violent criminals should not.”
That being said, there are a whole host of non-violent people who have been prosecuted and bullied into pleading guilty by the hyper-politicized, vindictive Justice Department of Joe Biden and Merrick Garland. It’s time for Trump to get it right.
Whatever his decision, it looks like Monday is going to be one hell of a day. Be prepared to cower before exploding liberal minds.
